We have a customer who is running server2003 w/ sp2 and Vista business clients. They have user folders based on the server set up in each user profile that utilizes the username as the folder name. The issue we are having is that the folders are being renamed to "Documents". It seems to be a purely superficial issue, since the folders still work. Does anyone know why this would be happening? I found a solution to it online that involved editing the desktop.ini file, but can't seem to find out the how and why of it to explain it to the customer. Thanks.

We are experiencing exactly the same problem. Once a user has logged into a Vista client the displayed name of their home folder is changed to Documents. Have searched the net and am unable to find a permanent solution.

Hi, This behavior is by design. Because there is a desktop.ini file inside of the folder, and the display name of the folder is determined in the desktop.ini file. Workaround: ======== Create a subfolder named as username and redirect to that subfolder. This will eliminate the confusion by allowing you to see folders and their respective users clearly. For example:original redirected path is: \\server\share\usernamecurrent redirected path should be: \\server\share\username\username In that folder, rename desktop.ini to desktop.old. Hope it helps. Sincerely, Joson Zhou Microsoft Online Community Support

This has got to be the most RETARDED feature I have ever seen. So basicly anyone who has their system setup like this is SCREWED! - I have over 3000 users all with their documents fodlers directly in a share! And the really wierd thing is for some reason one name is slowly replicating to ALL our user folders... obviously the actual foldername is never touched, but the visiable folder name is - IS there ANY way to turn this off? Your workaround sucks - unless you want to change the AD settings on 3000+ users and create new folder mappings, and then deal with all the login issues when someones NEW settings dont get pulled down, and their offline files are no londer mapped correctly, and they "cant find their documents". We need to get the same functionality we had with XP! and forget this personalization *** - or there needs to be a AD policy to force the name of the folder to be the username! Please contact me @ dbaker@ursulinestl.org Dan Baker Network Administrator

Any fixes on this yet? I understand where Dan is coming from. I work for a very small school district, and even i dont feel like you should have to go to every student machine and setup. Let alone id have to move all their files and folders that they have now. Surely microsoft will come out with an easy fix for the server.

Hi Joson,No this doesn't really help. Are you sure this is by design and not the result of a massive screw-up? Surely Microsoft must have realised the implications for existing domains? And if they did then why allow this "feature" to go ahead?We found that Windows 2003 R2 fileservers displayed signficantly less 'renamed' user folders than when the user folder share was viewed through Vista. We could change the display name of the folder back to what the user would expect to see by connecting to the network share through Vista, but could not change the display name directly on the server itself.Now is there a genuine fix for this?

I am amazed at Microsoft need to mess with things that already work very well. I am having this issue now with server 2008 and TS/CITRIX. I am also amazed that MS would put a client feature like this on a server... along with those "public folders" uggg. I cant tell if they even changed this in Windows 7 Service Delivery Specialist

We were able to fix this by cahnging the GPO for folder redirection and replicat what vista looks like (documents folderetc inside the home folder). We had the GPO "Move" documents to the new location, and then remove the desktop.ini from the root of the home folders so we can see the real folder names....

Done know if this is the same but I've just had my user folderrenamed to 'Contacts'from 'Chris', found out that the problem was a desktop.ini that I had created in 'Chris' with different"IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll" pointing tothe differentfolders icons for documents, contacts, music, video etc,once I deleted the desktop.ini, inthe user name folder, it changed backfrom 'Contacts' to 'Chris'.